Netflix is eyeing an early 2000s bestseller for its next series adaptation of a book.
The streamer is developing a show based on The Nanny Diaries, a 2002 novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. Scarlett Johansson, who starred in the 2007 feature film based on the book, will serve as an executive producer on the project from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions.
Amy Chozick (The Girls on the Bus) and Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City, HBO’s Divorce) are adapting the novel and will serve as showrunners on the potential series.
Whereas the film more or less followed the book’s plot, the series description suggests a somewhat different take. “Annie, a broke, aspiring writer in search of a story, takes a nanny job for a magnetic Upper East Side socialite, plunging into an elite world of unimaginable excess,” the logline reads. “When she lands the book deal of her dreams to go undercover and expose the salacious lives of the ultra-rich, Annie must try to keep up this double life even as she grows attached to the people and this world … and finds out what her elusive boss is actually capable of.” Authors McLaughlin and Kraus both worked as nannies before writing the book.
The Nanny Diaries is the latest in a long string of literary adaptations at Netflix. The streamer recently ordered a series based on Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, and Bridgerton, His & Hers and The Night Agent are among its biggest series so far this year.
Chozick, Bicks and Johansson (via her These Pictures banner) will executive produce with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman of Berlanti Productions; Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn of These Pictures; and Gary Barber and Sean Hoagland of Spyglass Media Group.
Deadline first reported the news.
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